A street name will indeed be renamed Vicha Ratanapakdee Way, Elon Musk is in hot water for deleting messages he was supposed to keep, and Brown Paper tickets is badly in arrears with some of your favorite local theaters and performers.

A major injury crash in Sonoma County briefly shut down 101 today, Gov. Gavin Newsom was in SF signing a package of laws aimed at boosting housing production, and SF is dealing with a backlog of COVID rent-relief applications and is stopping taking new ones.

A Tuesday morning shooting in Oakland’s Brookfield Village left one man dead and another injured, we have a video tour from inside the infamous Painted Lady fixer-upper, and the trove of city officials Mayor Breed demanded undated resignation letters from has become public.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has COVID-19, BART looks likely to yank the mask mandate next week, and Oakland resident Giles "Bud" Cropsey has passed away at age 111.

A 26-year-old SF man has been acquitted for reasons of self-defense after spending five years in jail for a New Year's Day 2017 killing, Michelle Obama is coming to SF in December, and 24th Street's Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed permanently (again).

The 100-year-old Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed its doors permanently, two people were shot outside an Oakland City Council meeting, and Dreamforce kicked off with an estimated 40,000 people in attendance.

Confused migrants were dropped at Kamala Harris’s home in a political stunt, Scott Wiener’s death-threat suspect was found guilty, and Sunday’s Leather Pride Fest means street closures, bus reroutes, and a few bare bottoms.

Sonoma County saw a third small earthquake just before noon today east of the town of Sonoma, Amtrak is suspending routes ahead of a freight rail worker strike, and some typhoon remnants could bring us some early-season rain this weekend.

SF-based Patreon laid off a chunk of its staff, DA Brooke Jenkins will try 16- and 17-year-olds as adults for certain “egregious” crimes, and those nonsense sidewalk barriers have finally been removed from the SFPD Mission Station.

An SFPD officer was injured while trying to interrupt a catalytic converter theft, Twitter and Elon Musk are still exchanging barbs, and Jeffrey Tumlin posts sped-up video of a Central Subway train during testing.

Elvis Costello has been added to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup, a security guard was critically wounded in a San Leandro armored truck robbery, and District 4 candidate Leanna Louie lost her appeal to get back on the November ballot.

The Queen of the Netherlands held court in the Castro, Sup. Connie Chan’s November housing ballot measure survived a legal challenge, and several California cities saw their all-time highest temperatures recorded Tuesday.

The CDC has authorized Omicron-specific booster vaccines, C.W. Nevius is moving to Napa, and many of those big green newspaper racks all over town are being removed.

A missing Solano Community College grad has been found, people are still choosing to swim in algae-infested waters, and it appears we have the first confirmed monkeypox death in the United States.

A 13-year-old was shot and wounded by a 12-year-old today at an Oakland school, a truck crash on I-80 in Vacaville dumped a whole lot of tomatoes, and we could be in for a very hot Labor Day Weekend in SF and around the Bay.

Paul Pelosi’s DUI Porsche is up for auction, the Castro Theatre's conversion into a concert hall took another hit, and 24,000 PG&E customers in the East Bay lost power in the late morning and early afternoon Thursday.

The SF Fire Department is investigating a string of dumpster fire arsons in SoMa and the Western Addition, Dreamforce is kicking off in a month and might be large-ish, and Senor Sisig's Ferry Building outpost opens Friday.

SFUSD is building a new $95 million elementary school despite declining enrollment, authorities have confirmed the body found in a lake is Kiely Rodni, and two people apparently getting busy in the stands at an A’s game have prompted a police investigation.

Gov. Newsom has vetoed a bill to create a pilot program of safe drug consumption sites, BART isn't putting the fences back up at 24th and Mission, and smoke from Humboldt fires is likely to drift down over the Bay on Tuesday.

Club Deluxe is applying for Legacy Business Status in hopes of avoiding closure, Apple is urging people to update their devices because of a security exploit, and a plane accident in Watsonville has left three people dead.

The Secret Service apparently withheld information about a threat on Nancy Pelosi's life two days before January 6th, Airbnb is rolling out a new party-rental-detection system, and two local dog owners have been reunited with their stolen pups.